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Found these on different sand banks along the Kansas (Kaw) River east of Lawrence. They are definitely fossils, and I believe they are some sort of tooth or molar, but I am no expert. Any ideas or positive ids appreciated! ps: this is my first post measured in metric in photos
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I think I finally did it. I think I may have found a Kansas trilobite.. by accident. We tried a few spots I'd found and just found a few things but my wife directed me to a closed road with significant road cuts. While it was getting dark and we could barely see I grabbed a few things using my phones light (need to get a proper flash light/lantern for next time). Back at home, looking at a larger piece I had mainly grabbed because of it's impressive limestone weathering, I discovered the below pygidia admixed with bryozoan fragments. I additionally think I found my first kansas crinoid spines and calyx fragment yesterday in a Pennsylvanian deposit (yes, I am jealous of you guys with intact crinoids). Could this be Ameura or Ditomopyge? Around 1 cm across. I know these probably aren't identifiable but these are my first (tens of thousands of crinoid stem segments and these are my first spines/caylix, no arm segments yet).
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Found in or near Ellis County, Kansas. No depth to it. I thought maybe a fish scale but doesn’t match “fish scale fossil” results in a search. thanks for looking
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Hi this is my second preparation project I’ve ever done, I also need some help identifying something. Original fish vertebrae Finished Original mosasaur vertebra, but might need help on ID Finished. Original, and finally my favorite. A Mosasaur jaw with mosasaur bone. Finished. here are the tools I used
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Back in April I did a four day trip hunting the Fort Hays Limestone and Blue Hill Shale along the Saline River in north-central Kansas. Had a blast! Always enjoy the alien looking giant septarian nodules of the BHS. Actually found a few cincretions containing well preserved rudists. (not pictured) Scored some incredible inoceramus stienkerns, photographed tons of ichnofossils, and after years of trying a near complete cremnoceramus and its matching stienkern! Most of the cremnos in the area are busted up into small pieces and coated with small oyster analogs. For reference: my hand at the knuckles is about 100 mm.
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I’m not sure what the fossils are. The last picture shows other fossils in the same formation. Found south of Lawrence Kansas. I would appreciate any help with identification!
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Both of these verts have been identified as Pachyrhizodus and were found in the Niobrara Chalk of Gove County, Kansas. Needing a second opinion.
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Was jogging on trail in NE Kansas today near areas we found Crinoids, brachiopods, fusulinids prior. The hole in this rock caught my attention. Looking closer, it has the shape of a jaw and it looks like teeth. It reminds me of the shape of a Xiphactinus jaw. It’s probably nothing. But what if ? Whether it’s “just a rock” or not, there are some shapes on this that looks like teeth or bone joints. Does anyone see anything in these pictures? my 6 year old daughter says, “it’s never just a rock Dad”. What are your thoughts???
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Hello all. I'm a newbie and artifact hunter. I pick up interesting "fossils" on my hunts and know nothing about their origin or identification. Here is what I think is a knuckle bone of some kind maybe from a sloth or other animal. It is mostly fossilized (I think). Found on the Kansas River. Appreciate any and all input. I'm going to post another interesting fossil that I think is a horse leg bone & hoof. Many thanks!
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https://photos.app.goo.gl/nnaj7Yi3i124zN6R9 This link will take you to the original pictures I took the day of finding the items. If someone would like more, please just let me know and I will take newer pictures to post. Thank you in advance!
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The wife surprised me with a trip to Kansas City this weekend for my birthday. We stopped at a road cut on the way out of town headed home and found some fun specimens. My neice and mother stopped at the same location a few weeks ago as well. We are excited to identify the finds for my nieces 4H geology project. I always wonder about some of these specimens if they are just the larger and smaller varieties of the same fossils. Here is a shot of the road cut. Here is an overall of our finds from the day. We think these are all Worthenia despite the large variety of sizes encountered. These look like Turritellas but not sure or confident what they are quite yet. need to research some more. The turritellas I am familiar with are from Kanopolis and smoother than these. We found this one that has an angle between a worthenia and all of the smaller ones. It also has smoother and rounder coils. It's the only one that looks this way. It's not as narrow as the turritella shaped ones, and not as wide as the worthenia shaped ones. Lastly we found these small bivalves from what it looks like. My wife was particularly handy at finding these. Overall it was a blast and a great stop and addition to my birthday weekend!
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Found these today and was wondering if you guys could identify them. Pretty sure it is a horse skull just wondering about the age? I appreciate the help -Kirk
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Hello I found this and some other clusters and other fossils in another area. I tried to find one like it but all this other snarge comes up and with out a reg computer it's really faustrating, This cheap phone that red cross gave me after the fire really doesn't take good pic The other items are I believe is sandstone but this person's here says they look like concrete. Thanks I hope the pic are fine
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Location: Cherokee County, Kansas, at the edge of Shoal creek. Found this in most most extreme southeast corner of the state.
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One of my Pennsylvanian crinoid stem hash plates had a couple of pieces I didn't recognize. I think the first may be an echinoid spine, the second, diamond shaped one may be a calyx piece (it would be the first one I've found). I think the last two are bryozoan. All the fossils are approximately 1 cm in greatest dimension (hard to get a ruler in the picture when that small).
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We were digging a trench and came across some fossilized coral while digging around there we found this laying in the side of the bank. Is this just a rock, or maybe even a claw
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My son found this in the creek near our home. Any idea what it is?
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Small black bone from near Kaw River, Upper Pleistocene to present
JBkansas posted a topic in Fossil ID
Found this in a creek bed here in NE Kansas, feels heavier than a fresh bone should (though it was buried in the mud) and the black color reminds me of other ice age finds (if it wasn't for the color I would have assumed it was dog/cat). *Edit* after cleaning, what I thought were nutrient canals are connected and completely lined by cortical bone, like true foramen of skull or sacrum. Our bedrock is Pennsylvanian but I know that ice age bones (mammoth, etc) have been found at the Kaw/Kansas River (which the creek feeds into about 1 km/ 0.6 mi downstream). Looked at my pictures of the KU Kaw River exhibit, apparently the bones can be upto 30k years old. The exhibit included mammoth, dire wolf, musk ox, etc. I'm guessing this was a much smaller animal. *edit* Not sure it's a hip bone anymore, animal bones aren't shaped like humans. *edit2* added info from KU exhibit on the area and changed title now that I'm more confident it's not a dog/cat bone that's been stained by river mud.
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29 in x 19 in x 9h approx Heavier than 100lbs. Dense Ha(d) a fingernail thick crust...u see where he's gone medieval on it. 20 years of thinking it was an ammonite due to spinesque looking structure...please help b4 it is 10 million pieces....he is about to. Lol
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Hello all. We were recently on 4-H trip to Greenwood County Kansas and stopped at a roadcut in the Kanwaka Shale. We have several questions, the first one is below. We found this crinoid stem with an encrusting Bryazoa on it. I believe this is Fistulipora but would like a more positive ID. Any help is appreciated
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In NE Kansas while hiking in trail after recent rain, saw what look like tooth/ claw/fossil? ? ? Any ideas? Found other interesting items that stood out, Find a lot of things that seem like they could have been used as tools. the items in the picture were not all found at one specific spot. Found them throughout the trail. IMG_4172.MOV IMG_4172.MOV IMG_4172.MOV IMG_4209.MOV
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I have recently found this fossil in north western Kansas (graham co.) I don't know if this is a shark vertebrae/cartilage disk or just a basic fish vertebrae. (Don't mind my bad prep work. I just started peeping fossils recently.)
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Getting Permission from Landowners regarding Western Kansas
JFPennsylvanian posted a topic in Questions & Answers
Hello all. I try and go fossil hunting as often as possible and I really want to get back out in the Niobrara chalk in western Kansas. I’ve only hunted out there one time on a state 4-H trip and it was the most fun I’ve ever had. However I do know that most of, if not all of the land the chalk is on is owned privately. I’m not sure the best way to get in contact with landowners about asking permission. If I lived closer I would just drive out there and ask around, but I live in eastern Kansas so it is a minimum 5-6 hour drive out there. Is there any reliable way of figuring out who owns land and the best way to ask them? Thanks for any and all help in advance.
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